Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-07-07
THE WESTERN STATES.

A PREMATURE explosion on the Minnesota
and Northwestern Railroad at Elizabeth, ILL.,,
killed ono Swede, who had just arrived, and
seriously injured three other employees.
A DISPATCH from Marshfeld, Wis, says:
sThe total loss by fire is not less than
81, 0G0, ,000, according to the latest figures
The Upham Manufacturing Company loses
not less than ssO0,OOo. Tho rnpidity of the
fire was terrific. 1t would catch at twenty
rods. Twelve solid blocks Of stores and bust
ness houses are destroyed A strong wind
blew from the southeast, but the flames
backed clear around the heart of the town.
The people worked like tigers. Twelve
buildings were blown up with dynamite, but
it did no good. The only manufacturing es-
adjustments left are the stave factory, hub
and spoke factory, and alcohol factory Words
cannot picture the scene"
MRS. LASGTRY, tho actress, has taken up a
legal residence at San Francisco, with the in
tention, it is reported, of bringing suit for
divorce after lapse of six months.
A STRIKE of oilmen in the refneries of the
Standard Oil Company at Cleveland, Buffalo,
New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Bayonne, and
Oil City, is threatened Over twenty thousand
men would BIO affected
A CHICAGO special of Thursday says: @The
defense in the omnibus Doodle case
were arraigned for trial yesterday. All
pleaded not guilty except ex-Commis-
sioner Lynn, who put in plea of guilty
Lynn, with Bipper, the butcher, and
Frey, the ex-warden of the intirmary, will
testify for the State The work of getting a
jury has begun. and promises to prove an all
summers job County Commissioner Dan
Wren, one of the accused, was surrendered
yesterday by his bondsman, Col. Alb Taylor,
and unless he gives new bond will have to
60 to Jail. The gang is thoroughly demoral-
lied"
A. A. TALMAGE Vice President and General
Manager of the Wabash Railway, died in his
private car at Peru, Ind, of Brights disease
and dysentery He was on his way to
Toledo from St Louis, accompanied by
his wife and two physicians. From To-
ledo the party intended taking yacht cruise
of some ten days around Lake Eric. The body
WAS embal1ned aud taken to St Louis Mr..
Talmage was cousin of the Rev. I. Dewitt
Talmage, and was reputed to be rich, having
had at least $500, GOO in good securities He
began railroading as clerk in the general
freight Office of the Lake Shole Road at
Buffalo.
SAN Francisco dispatch says that evil
liam Kissane alias W. X. Rogers, has filed a
demurrer in the Circuit Court to the suit
of the Chemical National Bank of New York,
the beginning of which action was mado the
occ sion for roviving the remarkable Grim
inal record of Kissane in the East In the
demurrer the counsel for Kissane hold that
the present action is barred by the statute of
limitations"
The bonds Of E. l. Harper and Ben T.
Hopkins, late officers of the wrecked Fidelity
Bank, were Thursday at Cincinnati increased
to $4,000 and 100000 respectively.
A CHICAGO telegram of Friday says aThe
war is over!" Good-by, boys!" Empty is
the pool-room, Riley's gone!" These inscrip-
tions and others of a like tenor were chalked
up on the big blackboards in Riloy's pool
room on Gamblers alley last evening"
in intimation of the fact that tho now
State law against pool-room gambling
goes into effect today and that the
glory of Riley's had departed Fully 1000
men and boys were in tho pool-room at 6
o'clock when one of these inscriptions was be-
ing chalkcd on the board Some were waiting
to get their tickets cashed on Tennessee, the
winner of a hurdle race at Washington Park,
and others who had no tickets to cash were
lingering sorrowfully around asking each
other if life was any longer worth living. Ali
OF them raised a howl when Riley's clerk
chalked up @Good-by, boys" One suicide and
four known embezzlements are credited to
losses in the Chicago pcol-room during the
past week.